Pretties

Cursive Is More Than Pretty Writing In the late eighth century Charlemagne tasked an English monk to standardize the script that became widely varied by region after the Roman Empire fell. Elegant handwriting changed over time and became a status symbol by the 1700’s, then professional penmen were hired to copy historical original documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. By the 1980’s American children were receiving little handwriting training while across the…

class. Many people feel uncomfortable when socializing with an upper class when they themselves are of a lower one. On the other hand others may not care about social class and choose to view the world without social standards. Andie, of the movie Pretty in Pink, believes that social classes shouldn 't hold you back, however, she allows them to hold her back. I can completely empathize with Andie. I do not want to let social class affect my social interactions nevertheless, I am hesitant to…

romance novels. To know me is to know my screen time is not filled with twitter, snapchat, or U tube. No my screen time, and there is a lot of it, is filled with reading the books the likes of Prep, by the author Jenny Han or The Summer I Turned Pretty by the author Curtis Steinfield. And yes, without a doubt, I know before I reach page fifty, how the book will end. True there is always a teen age girl at the center of each book who ends up finding herself once she has traversed the ins and…

I believe that the novel “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy is a coming of age story about a young man who initially set out to make a life for himself in a land that wasn’t so industrialized and in turn grew up and lost his innocence. John Grady was a young, naïve 16-year-old who was unhappy with the way “his” country was changing, so he set off with his friend Rawlins on a quest to find a place he wanted to call home. John Grady had child-like ideations that, while he couldn’t find the…

I am reading Pretty Tough by Liz Tigelaar, and I finished the book. This book was about two sisters who did not have anything in coming except their last name. Krista, one of the most pretty and popular girl in school did not want to be seen in private with her nerd and total freak sister Charlie Brown. When they both end up in the same soccer team, they both learn that sisters is more than friendship and that by working together they can go far. I am also reading Once was Lost by Sara Zarr,…

In modern books and series, there are a lot of smart female protagonists. But, one of the smartest may just be Spencer Hasting, of the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard. She has a smart personality,is very book smart, and has suspicions of who the main antagonist, “A”, and her late friend’s murderer is. When many people hear the word smart, the first thing they usually think about is book or school smart. But, the smartest people have a personality that gives off an aura of…

I’m the beginning of the book I recall John Grady attending his grandfather’s funeral. I could not tell if he was truly depressed about this or not. When I was about 10 years old when my grandfather died. This was a heartbreaking experience for my entire family. The suddenness of his death made me question why it happened as fast as it did. I had a strong relation with this part because my grandfather and I were just as close as Grady and his grandfather were. In this part of the story we get to…

There are many differences between “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “One Last Time” First, “One Last Time” is very serious and the characters are poor while “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is very upbeat and hopeful. Secondly, “One Last Time” is talking about something much more serious than learning french from a mean teacher. Lastly, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” he finds it imperative to learn french while in “One Last Time” their priorities are more important. They are also similar in many ways. First, they…

their music and their ever-expanding reach to the masses. Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” and Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” portray the mental battles that are common among the general public,…

words and spelling in his way of writing like in particular. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” what will be looked into is his form of Tones, Symbols, as well as his imagery. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” meaning that the person anyone he could live in this town because anyone including himself could live in this town Mr. Cummings sets the tone that there is nothing different or unique about the people or this pretty town. Looking into finding some of the tone details that Mr. Cummings…